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Photo: Courtesy of Jane Callender1/24You’ll need: indigo dye, natural fabric, a needle and thread, a stencil (optional), and a few buckets or pots. Step one: Marking up the fabric using a Callishibori stencil prior to stitching.
Photo: Courtesy of Jane Callender2/24After stitching, threads should be pulled up a little at a time.
Photo: Courtesy of Jane Callender3/24Then they re pulled up very tightly and tied off to secure compact folds of fabric. It is this compactness which creates the resist.
Photo: Courtesy of Jane Callender4/24A small indigo vat of about two gallons, in a bucket sitting in a flower pot. Bubble wrap between the two containers provides a layer of insulation. The vat sits in a garden tray, half of which is covered by a plastic mesh. Often shibori pieces are heavy with water, so rather than hang them up, it’s better to leave the bundle to drain and oxidize on a mesh. This keeps the drips down to a minimum.
Photo: Courtesy of Jane Callender5/24The greenhouse is my dye house and is used in the summer months for summer school. There are usually about three to four vats in there of different strengths and various sizes—dustbins and kitchen bins—and they include natural indigo and synthetic indigo vats. I make organic vats in a stainless steel container, as they need to be heated.
